The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean
35.00 NZD
Category: Horror
A gorgeous fantasy horror – a book about stories and fairytales with family and love at its dark heart… Perfect for fans of Neil Gaiman (Stardust, Coraline), Susanna Clarke (Piranesi) and Let the Right One In. Hidden across England and Scotland live six old Book Eater families. The last of their lines, ...Show more
Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez
36.99 NZD
Category: Horror | Reading Level: near fine
A damaged father battles to save his son from the sinister cult he is destined to serve, in this emotionally powerful, thrillingly paced gothic road trip, from the author of the International Booker Prize-shortlisted The Dangers of Smoking in Bed. Gaspar is in danger. Only six-years-old, he is frightene ...Show more
19 Claws and a Black Bird by Agustina Bazterrica (translated by Sarah Moses)
32.99 NZD
Category: Horror
On hearing her neighbour's body plummet on to her patio, a woman's comfortable life seems to split open. A cab driver's perfectly manicured nails may be concealing grisly secrets. A woman whose partner has left her begins to act out an increasingly deranged set of instructions.In these tense, macabre st ...Show more
The Night House by Jo Nesbo
36.99 NZD
Category: Horror
From the internationally best-selling author comes a twisted, multi-layered spin on the classic horror novel for fans of Stranger Things and ITWHEN THE VOICES CALL, DON'T ANSWER...In the wake of his parents' tragic deaths fourteen-year-old Richard Elauved has been sent to live with his aunt and uncle in ...Show more
A Haunting on the Hill by Elizabeth Hand
37.99 NZD
Category: Horror
SIXTY YEARS LATER, HILL HOUSE IS OCCUPIED AGAIN. Discover the landmark first novel ever to return to Hill House, officially authorised by the Shirley Jackson estate. Playwright Holly Sherwin is close to her big break. Having received a grant to develop her new play, all she needs is time and space to ...Show more
And Then She Fell by Alicia Elliott
36.99 NZD
Category: Horror
And Then She Fell is an unflinching and fiercely witty debut novel of Indigenous life, womanhood and mental health, heralding the arrival of an important and urgent new voice in genre-bending fiction. On the surface, Alice is exactly where she should be in life: she's just given birth to a beautiful ba ...Show more
The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story by John Freeman, John Freeman
35.00 NZD
Category: Literary
A selection of the best and most representative contemporary American short fiction from 1970 to 2020, including such authors as Ursula K. LeGuin, Toni Cade Bambara, Jhumpa Lahiri, Sandra Cisneros, and Ted Chiang, hand-selected by celebrated editor and anthologist John FreemanIn the past fifty years, th ...Show more
Eliot’s Book of Bookish Lists: A Sparkling Miscellany of Literary Lists by Henry Eliot
37.00 NZD
Category: Literary
A sparkling miscellany of literary triviaWho had birds called Death, Wigs and Spinach? How do you spell the noise of a door slamming? Whose working title was The Chronic Argonauts? Henry Eliot - author, editor and insatiable bookworm - has ransacked the libraries and archives of world literature, compil ...Show more
The Worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien: The Places that Inspired Middle-earth by John Garth
39.99 NZD
Category: Literary
An exploration of Tolkien's influences by renowned expert John Garth. 'Every page brings forth the elegiac tone of JRR Tolkien's work... It is a beautiful book, including many wonderful pictures by Tolkien himself... Garth's book made me realise the impact that Tolkien has had on my life.' - The Times A ...Show more
Whale by Cheon Myeong-kwan
32.99 NZD
Category: Literary
A sweeping, multi-generational tale blending fable, farce and fantasy. A woman sells her daughter to a passing beekeeper for two jars of honey. A baby weighing fifteen pounds is born in the depths of winter but named "Girl of Spring". A storm brings down the roof of a ramshackle restaurant to reveal a ...Show more
To Battersea Park by Philip Hensher
32.99 NZD
Category: Literary
The new novel from the Booker shortlisted author of The Northern Clemency An order is issued. A population may not meet, or touch or speak to each other. They stay inside, and the reality of a few streets in a capital city emerges. An underground river is discovered; an urban grove of pomeloes emerges. ...Show more
A Line in the Sand by Kevin Powers
37.99 NZD
Category: Literary
FROM THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE YELLOW BIRDS 'A kickass mystery from a superb storyteller' David Baldacci, author of The 6:20 Man 'A spellbinding and totally original thriller' Philipp Meyer, author of The Son An early morning on a beach in Virginia. As he is taking his daily swim, Arman Bajalan ...Show more